Taking the taxpayer-subsidized, “cheap” labor out of the equation would lead to sectors like agriculture to modernize more quickly, which would be a good thing. And for nasty work such as in slaughterhouses and chicken factories, there’d be a fair increase in wages that would also give more jobs to low-skill American workers.
There is no practical deportation plan that would eliminate illegal workers overnight, but vigorous deportation coupled with an aggressive e-verify program would take care of the bulk of the issue within a couple of years.
Yeah, some of those companies being subsidized by taxpayers would take a bit of a hit, but our real unemployment rate would go down and our increasing crisis in the skill level of our workforce would be significantly lessened.
They don’t think so. They think any short term deportation program will crash the economy.
As pointed out, controlling the border, coasts, and visas is the only thing needed to fix this. We already have everything else in place that is necessary.
I don’t favor a door-to-door search for illegals, so the only realistic plan is simply attrition.